READING GUIDE -- Required books for Class,Tsog, and retreat at bottom of page.
ALL TO COME IN GOOD TIME
Reading Guides
Western Books: Seen through the Buddhist Lens
Buddhist Book read through the Western Lens
All To Come: A lot of Optometry going on here so far
The site will go through "renewal" weekly. ...maybe more. remember the snowball...rolling down hill, there may be no stopping it. JR
see required books for all Classes and membership after Ringu Tulku's Books
Ringu Tulku’s Books
Lazy Lama Series From Snow Lion Publications. Available on the SnowLion Publications Web Site
TITLES:
TheLazy Lama looks at Buddhist Mediation ISBN: 0 9534489 0 8
The Lazy Lama looks at Refuge: Finding a Purpose and a Path ISBN: 0 9534489 2 4
The Lazy Lama looks at The Four Noble Truths ISBN: 0 9534489 1 6
The Lazy Lama looks at Bodhichitta: Awakening Compassion and Wisdom ISBN: 0 9534489 3 2
DESCRIPTION:
These are short pamphlet books that if understood, could take one far down the Buddhist path. As Matthieu Riccard says in his Foreword, Ringu Tulku shapes his commentary on traveling the path with everyday images that are accessible.
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TITLE:
Mind Training: The Lojong of Ringu Tulku. Edited by B.M. Shaughnessy. Dhi Publications.
DESCRIPTION:
“Lojong is not simply a mental exercise or a new intellectual approach, it is a profound education. It creates a radical change in our usual pattern of thinking. The meditation instructions and advice are plain and straightforward. This is a practice for ordinary life. There is no complexity or formality involved. No special ability is needed. Anyone can train their mind. The wisdom of these slogans is not exclusive to Buddhism. It is universal and goes beyond any particular religion. (Ringu Tulku 2003).”
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TITLE:
Path To Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation by Ringu Tulku. Forword by Matthieu Riccard. Shambala publications. ISBN: paper back 1 59030 012 2
DESCRIPTION:
Ringu Tulku’s own experience of how it feels to travel the Buddhist path using this Classic text. He communicates helpful ways to interpret Buddhist teachings so they work for us as they worked for himself. This is a lucid explanation of this classic text used to train monastics. The Kagyu Lineage is noted for combining the monastic and the yogic approach, so it is easily accessible in this way. Though there are four Lineages, all come together in a Rime approach of which Ringu Tulku is a recognized authority.
TITLE:
Rime by Ringu Tulku. Publication 2006.
other TITLES:
There are many other teachings of Ringu Tulku on Bodhichitta, Heart Sutra, The Six Paramitas, Sadhana, Tara Sadhana, Ngondro etc. etc. which are used in class.
This Site is an Education site for Bodhicharya Oklahoma Buddhist students in the context of Ringu Tulku's Tibetan Buddhist teachings.
All Public is Welcome in true Southern tradition, our hospitality loves exercising.
Visitors and New Tulsa Students...a Dharma tasting
Required Texts For Practice and BC-OK Membership:
1. Path To Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation. By Ringu Tulku. Available at B&N 41st and Yale,
2. Mind Training. By Ringu Tulku. Available through Bodhicharya
3. COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond. Available through B&N 41st and Yale.
4. The 100 Most Influential Books ever Written. by Martin Seymour-KSmith. 10 dollars at B&N. ISBN1 56731 678 6
We will add the other Classic Buddhist texts and have a full Buddhist path study list. Seymour Smith's book is halarious and very informative. We learn with humor. Why not? And what's the rush? We are aging as we read this sentence...so on we go. See you soon, JR